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1  There was that about consumption, for instance.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
2  Every family that lived in it, some one was sure to get consumption.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  They knew nothing about consumption whatever, except that it made people cough; and for two weeks they had been worrying about a coughing-spell of Antanas.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  There would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where the workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
5  He had gone all to ruin with the drink, however, and lost his power; one of his sons, who was a good man, had kept him and the family up for a year or two, but then he had got sick with consumption.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
6  Mary had had consumption, and all day long you might hear her coughing as she worked; of late she had been going all to pieces, and when Marija came, the "forelady" had suddenly decided to turn her off.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  As soon as the birth agony was over, and the wounds of society had been healed, there would be established a simple system whereby each man was credited with his labor and debited with his purchases; and after that the processes of production, exchange, and consumption would go on automatically, and without our being conscious of them, any more than a man is conscious of the beating of his heart.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31